Stanislava Kovalčíková | Rubigo | Kunstverein Freiburg

Stanislava Kovalčíková
Rubigo
21.02.-19.04.2026

For her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Stanislava Kovalčíková creates an expansive installation made of red plasticine, a synthetic modeling clay that serves as an environment for a series of paintings on discarded dials of Prussian church clocks. The installation evokes being enclosed by a body - a living mother ship. Yet it is a sick, decomposing organism. The yielding, yet resistant materiality of the plasticine and the muted acoustics reinforce the impression of being in an architecture made of body tissue or in a rubber cell.

In Rubigo , Kovalčíková combines imprints and rusted materials with emptied rituals and decaying bodies, with relics of a vanishing world and extraterrestrial visions. Kovalčíková uses painting to explore the human figure - its vulnerability, pain and desire, dependence and alienation - on the enamel surfaces of the weathered dials. The figures appear in constellations, but are nevertheless as if detached from a common space and time. Instead of following the uniform rhythm of a clock and the associated linearity and measurability, the images are instead determined by the logic of dreams.

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